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Multiple Parton Scattering in Nuclei: Beyond Helicity Amplitude Approximation

Ben-Wei Zhang, Xin-Nian Wang

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0301195

Abstract

Multiple parton scattering and induced parton energy loss in deeply inelastic scattering (DIS) off heavy nuclei is studied within the framework of generalized factorization in perturbative QCD with a complete calculation beyond the helicity amplitude (or soft bremsstrahlung) approximation. Such a calculation gives rise to new corrections to the modified quark fragmentation functions. The effective parton energy loss is found to be reduced by a factor of 5/6 from the result of helicity amplitude approximation.

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